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Wet, this is all fake melon-grape and it's terrible. Dry, though, dry is a different story. It's light and fruity, sweet, without being overwhelming. Beautifully balanced. So well blended I'm having a hard time picking out the individual notes. I get a bit of the tea coming through. The melon and peach are pretty much indistinguishable from each other and just present as being sweet and fruity. I can't specifically smell the white rose, which is a bit sad, because it's a favourite of mine. Overall though, this is beautiful and light. Totally office appropriate. I will thoroughly enjoy wearing it with any number of perfume oils in spring and summer.

In the bottle, I definitely get the "snow" note. It's amazing how something can be made to smell cold without actually being cold! Wet on my skin this is all lilac, true lilac, like the bush beside my driveway. Just as I had hoped. Amazing. This is light an sweet, one of the most beautiful florals I own. I am sure it will get a lot of wear in the Spring especially.

I do love patchouli. But I had hoped for more coconut out of this, as I love coconut even more than I love patchouli. On me, this is a sweet warm patchouli. It's absolutely lovely, but does leave me wishing for more coconut. I am hoping the patchouli might mellow a bit by summer and let the coconut shine through a little. Either way, I am happy I got it and will be keeping my bottle.

Red Lantern is pretty much my holy grail BPAL scent. I had been on a hiatus for a few years, and was devastated when I returned to find I had missed out on this Atmo. Luckily I hunted one down on the forum, and now it is mine!!! Smells exactly like Red Lantern. Gorgeous smoky, almost boozey caramel and coconut. Sex in a (spray) bottle.

I received a free goblin squirt of this from the Post in my last order. I couldn't remember the notes at all, and was too lazy to look them up, so I just sprayed some on my sleeve and tried to figure it out. It's quite sweet, and I could pick up hints of incense, but mostly something floral and something else I couldn't place. When I did read the notes the rose geranium made complete sense, I think the sweetness is the benzoin, I don't know what the something I couldn't place was, I'm not familiar with either daemonorops or cinnabar accord, but I guessing it's the daemonorops as my understanding is that's part of the palm family, and that sort of makes sense to my nose. I don't really get anything spicy or that I could pick out as cinnabar accord, though granted I don't really know what that should smell like, and Google isn't helping me any. Anyway, I like this! I'm not sure if I would use it enough to warrant purchasing a bottle, but I am glad to have gotten to try it.

Alice is all creamy spicy carnation on me. Since you already mentioned you don't like spicy florals, it might not be for you. I adore it, but I love carnations. I was going to suggest Muse of Fire, but I see you're already hunted it down. My favourite florals are usually rose dominant, but it looks like you've got that base covered! I'm not going to be much help. So, just saying hi really, and wishing you good luck finding the perfect floral!

So. This is basically sex in a bottle. I want to bathe in this stuff. So I may have to get the bath oil too. Lol. Seriously though, super sexy on me. Smoky vanilla, patchouli that's almost sugared and not too overwhelming. I can't pick out the hemp once it's dry, but I think it's blended in there. This is just super sexy-sex, all the time. Dirty sexy, as opposed to clean and innocent sexy, if that makes any sense at all. That's really all I can do to describe it. The best thing would be for you to get yourself some and see what all the fuss is about. Totally worth it. (I may have been drinking at the time of this review. Cheers!)

There's a lot of caramel in the bottle - drowning out the coffee. Once I get it on my skin though, it's all coffee. Really strong black coffee, but sweetened by the Caramel. Not getting any vanilla. As it dries though, I do get some "pillowy vanilla" which is almost like Marshmallow on me. Mmmm. Chewy. Oh this is good. Real good. It goes a bit powdery eventually, but it's fresh out of the mail and my skin was dry and I threw on a sweater over it. I will test again, but I have a feeling it's a winner! ETA: Several hours later this is the most gorgeous warm coffee scent ever...LOVE!! I think my favourite of the three coffee scents I own (Café Mille et Une Nuit and The Turkish Village)

Om nom nom nom. Omg this is so good. It's the same glorious caramel and rum from Red Lantern. It makes me so happy! It's much foodier than Red Lantern, and doesn't have that sexy edge, but it's still amazing and I'm so happy to have it! It will be great with Captain Lilith Hair Gloss I think.

This is lovely. Fresh on, it's a lot of musk (smells closest to red musk to me, but I'm not sure?), but the honey quickly comes out. The patchouli is mild, just grounding it, same as the dead leaves. This is really gentle, not overwhelming as I had feared it might be. The honey in it is amazing. I really love this. I can see it pairing well with a ton of different perfumes, and I feel like it will be work appropriate as well (I'm never sure with anything containing Patchouli).

I love Dead Leaves and Red Musk both, so I had to give this a go. Especially after Puddin' raved about it. Unfortunately, what I didn't account for was the fact that I apparently don't like neroli. I had never been able to successfully pick it out in a blend before. I can in this though, and we are not friends. I find it sharp and bitter. Actually gives me a bit of a headache. Which is such a shame, because the red musk with the dead leaves are to die for. I will likely pass on my decant to someone who can love it. And now I have learned Neroli isn't for me, so this was a good lesson, I suppose.

A generous frimp from a lovely forumite. Straight off my wishlist! Wet, the sandalwood and peach really stand out. Something a bit sharp and bitter too, which I think is the osmanthus, but I'm not all that familiar. Dry, it's extremely well blended, to the point that I can't really pick out the individual notes, other than the peach, which is dominant on me. This is soft and feminine and beautiful. Not too sweet. Light throw. Would be beautiful for spring I think.

This is a generous frimp from a forumite, straight off my wishlist! I love roses. I am slowly doing my best to try every rose-dominant blend BPAL has to offer. Which is a lot. This is one is a very fresh, very red rose, with lots of greenery as well. Different than the sweeter white rose scents I often gravitate towards. No hint of going powdery or soapy thus far. Really lovely. I can't stop huffing my arm. This stays true fresh rose. Beautiful. May need a bottle.

Other than the shared love of rose, we have quite different taste (Violet and I aren't friends), so I haven't necessarily smelled/liked all of these, just felt you might like them based on your scent preferences: 1. Ogygia (Wanderlust) - Sea air, kelp, and climbing vines, flame-singed cedarwood and juniper branches, cypress boughs, alder wood, violets, selino, parsley, glistritha, and white sage. 2. Marie (Diabolous) - sinuous violet and elegant tea rose 3. La Bella Donna Della Mia Mente (I love this one so much!) Soft, lush myrtle and dry, sweet melilot with wild rose, pomegranate juice and peach blossom against a background of deep aquatic notes and a twirl of melancholy autumn breezes. 4. Jezebel (This one is gorgeous) - honey, roses, orange blossom and sandalwood 5. Envy - Green herbs slithering through mint, lime and lavender Whatever you decide on, hope it ends up working well for you!

Another glorious cake scent from the lab. I have yet to have anything "cakey" go seriously wrong on me. This is straight up cake with a bit or orange and just the faintest hint of anise. Gorgeous. Love!! So glad I tracked down a bottle.

Based on your likes, here's a list of general catalogue or currently available limited edition scents: Foodie Eat Me - Three white cakes, vanilla, and red and black currants The Candy Butcher - Bittersweet chocolate with a heavy cream undertone. Cockagine - milk and honey, sweet cakes and wine. Halfling - Porridge, kukui nuts, and pastry crumbs. Dana O'Shee - Offerings of milk, honey and sweet grains I see others have made recommendations for coconut scents. I am a huge coconut lover. I've tried most of the Lab's general catalogue scents that contain coconut. Most of them were not what I was looking for. So I thought I would mention Death Cap - A warm, soft, ruddy scent, earthy and mild. I know it doesn't list coconut, but I swear it's in there. It's my favourite GC coconut scent. If you want to venture into LE's, Paper Kite is gorgeous coconut. Ivory Vulva is more of a coconut cookie on me. Both are glorious. Body, Remember is a more tropical coconut mixed with sweet florals. I am a dirt lover too. My GC faves are: Zombi - Dried roses, rose leaf, Spanish moss, oakmoss and deep brown earth Yorick - Grave dirt, bone, decay, angel's trumpet, and moldering scraps of shroud: the essence of finality. Hope you find some things you love!

Wet, the leaves and roses are very green and fresh. Almost like stems instead of blooms, and not the lab's dead leaf note like I was expecting. Dry, the sweetness of the rose comes out more. This is not an autumnal smelling blend, like I expected, but it's beautiful nonetheless. I think I will really enjoy wearing it in Spring.

Harvest Moons 05 and 06 are two of my all-time fall favourites. They're a bit similar, but there are differences for sure. To me, 06 seems to have a hint of spiciness to it. I also happen to adore the label art on 06. Fall in a bottle!

One of my all-time favourite fall blends. I have 05 and 06, and they're different for sure, but I love them equally. To me, 05 is more floral, but just as fruity. Like fall in a bottle, to me.

This was a bit of an impulse buy for me. I got the hair gloss from the Post, and before it even got here, I was tracking down a bottle of the perfume to go with it. Based on the notes though, I didn't think this could possibly go wrong, and it didn't. On me, this is like a foodie, more innocent version of Red Lantern (which is my holy grail scent) so I am super stoked to have it in my collection. It's like a Red Lantern I can wear to work. Caramel, some coconut and a bit of rum. Gorgeous. Can't wait to get the Hair Gloss and wear them together!!

I was gifted some of this to try by a lovely forumite. Its not something I would have picked for myself, and I find I'm actually often most excited to try things I wouldn't have necessarily picked. I seldom wear anything with lavender during the day, so I decided to try this as a bedtime scent. In the bottle I so get a lot of lavender, but on my skin its all musk. As it dries the oakmoss comes out. I find this quite masculine on me. Its really nice though, I quite like it. Strong, good throw. Oddly enough, on one part of my arm it got mixed with some leftover Muddy Puddles I was testing, and the two smell devine together. Overall, this isn't really for me, but I'm grateful to have gotten to try it. I shall pay it forward to the next person in the spirit it was given to me, so someone else can test it too.

I had decided I didn't need this, as I have quite a few chocolate scents already. However, I ended up scoring a partial bottle of this, and I am so glad I did! This is great. Very different than my other chocolate scents. I don't get any marshmallow from this, but I'm ok with that. What I do get is a very dry hot chocolate scent. Almost like the hot chocolate powder before you actually make it into hot chocolate. It's not overly powdery, just dry, in a way that I really love. Great lasting power and throw. I love it! My partial will be enough for me, just because I do have so many other chocolate scents, but I am very glad to have this in my collection.

This was a total impulse buy. I got the hair gloss unsniffed, and then before it even arrived, decided to snatch up a bottle of 2009 from the forum. So far, really glad I did! I was totally scared of the cotton note. I HATE the smell of laundry in a perfume, almost makes me queasy. Makes no sense, I love the smell of actual laundry.... Anyway, this is mostly caramelized sugar on me, with hints of cream, and just the vaguest whiff of cotton, but none of that "laundry" smell I was worried about. Though this is a Weenie, I feel more like I will want to wear it a lot in the Spring. It's sweet but not cloying, and somehow manages to smell "clean". I really like this, it is foodie but very different from other foodie blends I have.

I didn't order a decant of this because I'm dumb and somehow forgot how much I love sugary florals. And then I saw the reviews, and the talk of "explosions" made me wonder if this had some of that effervescence that I love so much... Thankfully a lovely forumite gave me a tester (Thank you Mystery213!) and I've been able to test it in time to add a bottle to my order before it's gone, because this is glorious. It is slightly effervescent, not quite in the same was as the Lab's champagne note, but something similar to that. It is sugary as well, but not too sweet. I can't pick out the flowers. There is a slightly spicy floral in there...I don't think it's carnation, but maybe? I don't get violet or jasmine, two florals which I amp and don't care for. I don't get rose either, which I amp and do like. To me, it's a white floral. It's nothing I'm familiar with, so not lilac or honeysuckle either. Maybe freesia? Can't be sure though. Whatever it is, it's gorgeous, and I can see reaching for this a lot in the spring and summer. Beautiful.

I love coconut, and have trouble passing it up in anything, even when I'm not sure about the other notes. I don't have much experience with ambergris, or ambrette, and I don't think I've ever successfully identified champaca in any blend. Still, coconut! So I tracked down a bottle. Glad I did! On me, this is a beautiful coconut floral. Tropical and sweet, but not overwhelmingly sweet on me. If the champaca is that floral note I'm getting then I quite like it. This is lovely. I feel like it will be a good "spring coconut". This is much fresher than either Paper Kite (which is a warmer, richer coconut) or Ivory Vulva (which is a sweeter, foodier coconut).